NOMINATIONS for Kingston Council’s 2024 sustainable business awards close at the end of the month. There are six award categories – waste reduction and recycling solutions, diversity and inclusion, small and medium business leadership, towards net zero 2030, product innovation and technology, and young changemakers and innovators.Kingston mayor Jenna Davey-Burns said it is important to celebrate businesses which undertake sustainable practices. “We have a remarkably innovative and diverse business community in Kingston and it’s important we recognise and applaud those businesses and individuals making the world a better place. We started the awards program last year to celebrate innovation, increase…
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CONSTRUCTION on a new boardwalk at Inner Harbour in Patterson Lakes is set to take place soon. The Harbour Plaza area at Patterson Lakes was ravaged by a fire in 2022 (“Fire tears through Patterson Lakes businesses, The News, 15/2/2022). Kingston Council has budgeted $1.4 million for boardwalk works in the vicinity, and is expected to go to tender later this year. Council has confirmed that it hopes to have completed construction by the end of the 2024/2025 financial year. Kingston councillor Cameron Howe says the project will help businesses recover after the 2022 blaze. “The Harbour Plaza fire at…
WORKS on the Frankston Hospital redevelopment have passed the halfway mark. Major construction on the $1.1 billion project began in June 2022. A new 12-storey tower for clinical services with 130 more beds, rooms for mental health and cancer treatment services, and 15 operating theatres is being built.The redevelopment is being funded by the state government. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said the project will be a “gamechanger for the south-east” and will “cut wait times and ease pressure on other hospitals.” Concrete slabs for the first seven floors of the new tower have now been poured. Construction on a new…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A LARGE deputation waited on the council on Friday last with the request that action be taken to provide adequate drainage for the residential area from Beach Street to Overton Road, Frankston.Cr. Gray read a letter from Mr. E. A. Evans, asking him to introduce the deputation of residents affected by the recent floods, and it was evident from the commencement that the deputation had the sympathy of the whole council.Under the circumstances it was extremely unfortunate that Mr. W. Milvain, who was absolutely “straining at the leash” in his eagerness to address the council, should…
NEWLY donated works are now on display as part of a new McClelland Gallery exhibition.Visionary: Recent donations to the McClelland Collection opened on 30 March, and will run until 21 July. It features works from artists Rick Amor, Lauren Berkowitz, Peter Corlett, Lawrence English, Fiona Foley, Mark Galea, Mira Gojak, Julius Kane, Anne-Marie May, Sanne Mestrom, John Nixon, and Kerrie Poliness.McClelland Gallery artistic director Lisa Byrne said “philanthropic support is an important factor for all public galleries and can be a vital part of ongoing success.” “McClelland was founded through the generous gift of Nan and Harry McClelland, and has…